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So, you wanna join this community ? - Before you request to JOIN please take a few minutes to look are YOUR Public Profile on Google+. Google+ Communities are a place for US to Share our Common Interests. I look at each and every Request to Join Profile and I expect to see what interests you have with this community.

You can look all you want, but to post or to make a comment in the community, WE must share a common interest. In this case, Genealogy, Family History, the Family Tree Maker program or any other genealogy software. I need that hint in YOUR profile to let me know why I should accept your request to join.

So, you wanna join this community ? - Before you request to JOIN please take a few minutes to look are YOUR Public Profile on Google+. Google+ Communities are a place for US to Share our Common Interests. I look at each and every Request to Join Profile and I expect to see what interests you have with this community.

You can look all you want, but to post or to make a comment in the community, WE must share a common interest. In this case, Genealogy, Family History, the Family Tree Maker program or any other genealogy software. I need that hint in YOUR profile to let me know why I should accept your request to join.

This is an FYI - I don't completely understand where the "sunsetting of Google+" will lead us (me), but I am now aware that something is going to happen on Google+ in 2019.

Bottom line, from what I have been reading, the use of Google+, and I am guessing Google+ Communities for the consumer (you and I) is not being used in the way it had been hoped / projected to be used.

I will not say that "facebook won", but certainly from my circles, facebook is where folks are.

Not giving up yet, but wanted you ALL to know what's going on with Google+ and that i am aware of this and looking for another home.

There are entirely too many Family Tree Maker user groups on facebook, so I am not likely to go there. I find them too unfriendly for my taste, have been "kicked off" a couple of times, my words, not blocked, just received too many negative comments. Too much negative energy in these FB groups, so I have un-joined most of them.

Danine Cozzens: I signed up for Google+ because others were using it, but it never seemed to be as effective as Facebook in reaching people with events and groups. Half my FB action now comes from private and secret groups. My Google+ friends are trying other platforms such as MeWe.

"With the clock ticking, Google+ users are warily eyeing their alternatives. A “Google+ Mass Migration” group has already sprung up (on Google+, of course) for “community leaders” to decide “where we go.” The options so far are suitably niche: the privacy-oriented social network MeWe; the decentralized, open-source network Mastodon; and Pluspora, which describes itself as an “online social world where you are in control.” Facebook is absolutely off the table." [https://qz.com/1417299/google-plus-is-dead-meet-the-educators-and-gamers-in-mourning/]

Will answer a User Question about what Media Files are included or not included using the FamilySync™ process

FTM User Question - What Media files are uploaded to an AMT in the Sync Process

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Anita M Butler: +Cousin Russ Thank you. I understood about the Private and Not Private difference. I just couldn’t figure out how Ancestry knew which files were originally theirs. Metadata ... hmm sounds very techie.

Cousin Russ: +Anita M Butler - yes it is and can't explain it, except there is information within the Media file that computers use. Users can also do Metadata within their images. I don't really need to understand, because it works.

Thank you,

Russ

Jan Stypula: The Metadata would contain the information that is on the right side of the screen on his presentation. It gives the information about the media. I'm sure that anything that downloads from Ancestry they have written in the code not to load it back up to them.

Russ Worthington: I was asked about Citing Photos, from the Find A Grave website. I may cover that later, but, the Photos from the Find A Grave website are for My Use only and mark them Private in Family Tree Maker so that aren't seen in my Ancestry Member Tree. The only headstone photos I put in my Ancestry Member Tree (not marked private) are ones that I take. I will do a Video on how to do that, as well as how I Cite the Cemeteries

I have figured out a way to Manage the Date Error Report. First, to identify the Potential Errors, Secondly, Give me the ability to SEE that the profile has an Error, Thirdly to Have a ToDo List to work from, by a specific Error Message Group.

I had not been dong a good job of managing these errors at all, until I used the Data Error Report when helping others. (read smaller FILES).

After spending a couple of days, I have 823 Tasks / ToDo Items to work from.

Part 2 will be, so now what. I identified the Errors, found the reason for the Potential Error, Resolve that error in the database, the make sure the Potential Error has been resolved.

I will add a few people to this database, as see if There are NEW Errors. I will also then, clear some of the ones I have identified.